Fifty percent of NYSID’s BFA studios are devoted to residential design. Gideon Mendelson ’07 (AAS), founder of Mendelson Group, and Brooke Lichtenstein ’10 (BFA) and Yiannos Vrousgos ’10 (BFA), co-principals of Input Creative Studio, talk about the foundation in residential design that got them where they are today.
Read MoreNYSID’s graduating class received the wisdom of two influencers in interior design, Nate Berkus and Elaine Griffin, at the 2019 commencement ceremony. On May 23, cheers rose from the seats of the 92nd Street Y as the New York School of Interior Design’s 111 graduates marched across the stage to accept their diplomas.
Read More“Charlotte Moss’s generosity in endowing this scholarship made a critical difference to me: it helped reduce my debt and enabled me to buy a laptop. Buying that laptop meant I could work as many hours as it would take to give school my all. And believe me … I gave it my all.” –Rachel Edelstein ’19 (BFA)
Read MoreNYSID’s students have won many awards, its faculty are recognized trailblazers and its curricula and offerings are continuously evolving and pushing the standards of interior design education ever higher.
Read MoreWhen you walk into the third-floor common area of WeWork’s new 135 West 41st Street facility, designed by alumnus Matthew Giampietro ’14 (MFA-1), you’ll find what he calls “four levels of seating.”
Read MoreStefan Steil ’08 (BFA) and ’10 (MFA-2), faculty member and principal of Steilish Interiors & Architecture (steilish.com), was one of the designers selected to reimagine a room for the 2018 Kips Bay Decorator Show House on New York’s Upper East Side last April.
Read More“Interior Design is equal parts art and science,” writes Dr. Ellen Fisher, NYSID’s Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean, in the introduction to her book, New York School of Interior Design: HOME: The Foundations of Enduring Spaces. “It is problem solving with an added value: the designer’s unique creative twist and ability to refine solutions with an eye for beauty and empathy.”
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